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The latest AJ focuses on the work of Groupwork + Amin Taha including an interview with its founder, a full timeline of the practice’s work, and building studies of two mixed-use projects in Islington: the controversially stone-fronted 15 Clerkenwell Close and a residential/retail block at 168 Upper Street. PLUS Will architects cut down on concrete after a report says it is responsible for 8 per cent of global CO2 emissions; ...

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'Thanks to its building boom, Britain has become, by default, the new Barcelona.But somehow it has not managed to get a building by Koolhaas, Ito, Gehry or Siza - and we are not producing equivalents.'

New Architecture Foundation director Rowan Moore.Observer, 16.6.02

'In a world of Gehrys and Libeskinds, it's very tempting to make grand gestures.We like to avoid the pitfalls of being blown about by fashion.'

Graham Morrison.Guardian, 15.6.02

'There was a letter from somebody who said he didn't care if the new bandstand had been designed by schoolchildren - it was bloody ugly. I knew then that we were on the right lines.'

'It's an absolute atrocity. I think it should be made into a young offender's institute.'

Lynda La Plante on the Dome. Evening Standard, 14.6.02

'More serious than public ignorance [about architects] is the imbalance between the 5 per cent good to middling and the 95 per cent mediocre to appalling in terms of the design quality of new building.'

Italian architect Massimiliano Fuksas has criticised Italy’s national institute of architects for failing to recognise his wife and business partner Doriana after it awarded a lifetime achievement award solely to him

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